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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Pakistan [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
Frequency of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in Pakistan increased from 1.5% in 2006 to 4.5% in 2009 ...
Rumina Hasan, Kauser Jabeen, Asho Ali, Yasraba Rafiq, Rabia Laiq, Babar Malik, Mahnaz Tanveer, Ramona Groenheit, Solomon Ghebremichael, Sven Hoffner, Zahra Hasan   +10 more
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Burkina Faso

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010
Because data from countries in Africa are limited, we measured the proportion of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) cases among TB patients in Burkina Faso for whom retreatment was failing.
Nuccia Saleri, Gisèle Badoum, Martial Ouedraogo, Sary M. Dembélé, Rachel Nacanabo, Victor Bonkoungou, Daniela Cirillo, Gabriele Pinsi, Alberto Matteelli   +8 more
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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: epidemiology and management

Clinical Epidemiology, 2014
Alberto Matteelli,1 Alberto Roggi,1 Anna CC Carvalho21Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for TB/HIV Co-Infection, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 2Laboratory of Innovations in Therapies, Education and ...
Matteelli A, Roggi A, Carvalho ACC
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Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Germany [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
We evaluated risk factors and treatment outcomes associated with multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) in Germany in 2004–2006. In 177 (4%) of 4,557 culture-positive TB cases, Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
Barbara Eker, Johannes Ortmann, Giovanni B. Migliori, Giovanni Sotgiu, Ralf Muetterlein, Rosella Centis, Harald Hoffmann, Detlef Kirsten, Tom Schaberg, Sabine Ruesch-Gerdes, Christoph Lange   +10 more
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Increasing Drug Resistance in Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
We expanded second-line tuberculosis (TB) drug susceptibility testing for extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from South Africa.
N. Sarita Shah, Jessica Richardson, Prashini Moodley, Salona Moodley, Palav Babaria, Melissa Ramtahal, Scott K. Heysell, Xuan Li, Anthony P. Moll, Gerald Friedland, A. Willem Sturm, Neel R. Gandhi   +11 more
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Extensively Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, South Korea, 2011–2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
To better understand extensively drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, we assessed clinical and microbiological characteristics of 5 extensively drug-resistant pneumococcal isolates.
Sun Young Cho, Jin Yang Baek, Cheol-In Kang, So Hyun Kim, Young Eun Ha, Doo Ryeon Chung, Nam Yong Lee, Kyong Ran Peck, Jae-Hoon Song   +8 more
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Programmatically selected multidrug-resistant strains drive the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa [PDF]

, 2013
South Africa shows one of the highest global burdens of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB). Since 2002, MDR-TB in South Africa has been treated by a standardized combination therapy, which until 2010 included
Pillay, Manormoney, van Helden, Paul D., Nicolaas C. Gey van Pittius (173264), Paul D. van Helden (33594), Marlein E Bosman, Gagneux, Sebastien, Thomas C Victor, Manormoney Pillay (257769), Nicolaas C Gey van Pittius, Borna Müller (173253), Hayes, Cindy, Streicher, Elizabeth M., Andre Trollip (449922), Robin M Warren, Elizabeth M Streicher, Trollip, Andre, Violet N. Chihota (143307), Warren, Robin M., Bosman, Marlein E., Müller, Borna, Violet N Chihota, Cindy Hayes, Marisa Klopper (398815), Cindy Hayes (449923), Elizabeth M. Streicher (439727), Borna Müller, Paul D van Helden, Marlein E. Bosman (449924), Klopper, Marisa, Gerrit Coetzee, Sebastien Gagneux (149824), Chihota, Violet N., Andre Trollip, Marisa Klopper, Sebastien Gagneux, Gerrit Coetzee (296078), Victor, Thomas C., Manormoney Pillay, Coetzee, Gerrit, Gey van Pittius, Nicolaas C., Robin M. Warren (33593), Thomas C. Victor (185348)   +41 more
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: With almost 9 million new cases each year, tuberculosis remains one of the most feared diseases on the planet. Led by the STOP-TB Partnership and WHO, recent efforts to combat the disease have made considerable progress in a number of ...
Zager, Ellen M, McNerney, Ruth, McNerney Ruth, Zager Ellen M   +3 more
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Trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis in a gold-mining workforce in South Africa, 2002-2008. [PDF]

, 2012
SETTING AND OBJECTIVE: To describe trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in two gold-mining workforces, South Africa, 2002-2008. DESIGN: TB programme data analysis.
Fielding, K. L., van Halsema, CL, Churchyard, GJ, Churchyard, G. J., Chihota, VN, Grant, AD, Chihota, V. N., Grant, A. D., Fielding, KL, van Halsema, C. L., Lewis, J. J., Lewis, JJ   +11 more
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International spread of MDR TB from Tugela Ferry, South Africa. [PDF]

, 2011
We describe a death associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV infection outside Africa that can be linked to Tugela Ferry (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), the town most closely associated with the regional epidemic of drug-resistant ...
Beaton, R Kate, John, Laurence, Simon Ashworth, Onn Kon, Alexander Pym, O. Martin Williams, Kon, Onn Min, Richard J. Lessells, Alexander S. Pym, Williams, O Martin, Graham Cooke, Pym, Alexander S, Onn Min Kon, Graham S. Cooke, Cooke, Graham S, Moodley, P, Supply, P, R. Kate Beaton, P. Supply, Laurence John, Lessells, Richard J, Ashworth, Simon, Richard Lessells, P. Moodley   +23 more
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